The History of Drugs in Society explores the history of different substances and how we’ve lived alongside and interacted with them.This season, we’re going to look at opium in one of three ways: opium as a medicine, opium as a commodity that is traded, and opium as a drug that is consumed and people become addicted to. Each episode will have one of these three as the primary focus. We will start with the first signs of the opium poppy through the current opioid crisis in America and the major issues surrounding opioids globally.
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Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
This episode will review the impacts of the coronavirus on both illegal and legal drug markets. In terms of illegal markets, this includes how drug trafficking organizations and street-level drug markets have been affected. As far as legal markets go, we'll take a look at how harm reduction and medical support services and opioid prescriptions overall are dealing with the pandemic, and an example of disinformation.
You can find the full transcript with citations here.
Audio used for the intro:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_sS28TZL90
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpeWjXjdq9M
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9JoavhG0wM
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